Just to save me some research time: can anyone tell me if it is possible to run FMOD on a machine without a Sound Card or a machine without Sound Drivers? (eg on a Server or even a Virtual Machine?)
We were hoping to use FMOD to process audio files to capture metadata, rather than using it for playback.
If so: do I have to do anything special to initialise FMOD on such a machine?

getNumDrivers will return 0, so you can check that and set FMOD_OUTPUT_NOSOUND if you want, but if you’re not even wanting to use it in the first place then just setting to nosound without even checking would work